Lucretia Coffin was born on January 3, 1793 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Lucretia was a women's rights activist and opposed slavery. Lucretia grew up to become a women's rights activist, religious reformer, and abolitionist. She was strongly opposed to slavery and was dedicated to her work as an abolitionist. As she grew older, word spread that she could speak in a way that could convince her audience to join her anti-slavery boycott; However, there were people who were against the idea of ​​ending slavery and continually questioned his beliefs. When Lucretia was a child, she was always horrified by slavery. She grew up with Quaker parents. Quakers believe that slavery, as well as war, goes against the teachings of God. His early beliefs about abolition were formed in part by the influence of his parents and by his faith. In 1804, her family moved to Boston, and at the age of thirteen, Lucretia and her sister attended a Quaker boarding school in New York, the Nine Partners Quaker Boarding School. She worked as a teaching assistant. While attending the Quaker boarding school, she met James Mott, her future husband. The couple married in 1811 and moved to Philadelphia. Soon after, they had six children. Five of them became adults. In 1817, Lucretia's youngest son died at the age of three following an illness. A few years before her son's death, a family tragedy occurred in 1815 when Lucretia's father died, leaving her mother in debt and the entire family in financial difficulties. While in financial need, James Mott found employment in his Uncle Scott's cotton mill, sold plows, and later became a bank clerk. His boycott of slave goods led him to sell primarily wool rather than cotton because he too believed that ...... middle of paper ...... because of the inconsistent conflict over the Fourteenth Amendment , Lucretia joined Anthony and Stanton. to form the National Woman Suffrage Association, dedicated to creating a federal amendment granting women the right to vote. Lucretia and her husband wanted to open a Quaker institution of higher learning. It was called Swarthmore College. When the college was established in 1864, she and James had insisted that it be coeducational. For years she was vice-president of the Universal Peace Union. In 1870 she was elected president of the Pennsylvania Peace Society, a position she held until her death. Mott began to believe that a new spirit was at work in the world and demanded active participation in reform. http://www.biography.com/people/lucretia-mott-9416590#awesm=~oDw9qACfIdGdIb